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26 Dec 2024 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol tells the tale of a woke Scrooge who is given a vision of his future. Woke Scrooge is horrified by the neurotic, demonic depiction of his future self by Johnny Depp, and is relieved to wake up in the body of either...
24 Dec 2024 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
“If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?”Ai Weiwei What are the "Rock, Paper, Scissors" of the arts? When artists play "Rock, Paper, Scissors," what tools do they use? Beauty? Sorrow? Subterfuge? Denial? No...
20 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
What am I doing in Mexico? Right. Of course. I can't remember. What am I doing in Mexico? Leaving. What else? No matter where it is, you know it's time to gowhen people get to know you. It's a life of goodbyes, Of the endless Adios. "Pack light," t...
19 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I can tell it's Christmasby the inflatablesnowmensitting on the sidewalkin the sun Is that a homeless man,or Santa Claus? Did he just ask me for a cigarette? Isn't he worried that the sparkswill land on his coat,causing him todeflate? Does he disgust...
17 Dec 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I avoid all insulting manufactured propaganda events, so when Civil War came out earlier this year, I ignored it. But it made itself available tonight when I wasn't looking for it. So, in a moment of morbid curiosity, I watched it. It isn't garbag...
13 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I'm leaving on a violin trainto dance on the ceilingof a bottomless sky I'm dying to go fallingoff this raincloudlike a bird I will not hit the bottom I am a mist of sorrow Hanging by my neck On a skeleton of words * * ...
11 Dec 2024 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"You and me are molded by thingsWell beyond our acknowledgment"Stereolab I had a friend in Austin who was the leader of a traditional Irish punk band. He said something once about backing him up in a bar fight and was offended when my response was...
8 Dec 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I'm changing my opinion of my favorite song of mine from "Fabulous Dream" to "All I Want." "All I Want" is the most-true song I will ever write. Not a trace of poetry anywhere near it. It's more like a crime scene set to music. Remember the falle...
7 Dec 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"I was in high cotton just a-bangin' on my six-stringA-kickin' at the trash can, walkin' skin and bone"John Prine If God hadn't intended us to write love songs, He wouldn't have shaped the heart like a guitar pick. Because the future is a concrete...
3 Dec 2024 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"I immediately notice that his education is poor before he speaksHe asks me for identification with an ugly expression"Apache & Canserbero I walked onto the set of Total Recall today, for the purposes of buying a new phone. It looked like a mall,...
